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Paying Students to Go to School!

A Cincinnati high school started an experimental incentive program this month, paying their students to come to school.  Dohn Community High School, a charter school partnered with Easter Seals, will...

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History of April Fools’ Day

Did you get pranked on April Fools’ Day this year? If so, you were one of the many across the globe to participate in some April Fools’ shenanigans. But did you ever wonder where this jokester’s day...

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Fukushima still leaking radioactive water

Nearly two and half years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan brought on the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company...

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The U.S. Government is Shut Down?!

At midnight on October 1, the United States government shut down operations due, in essence,  to a dispute in Congress over President Obama’s new health care law. Obama’s tenure as President has been...

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The World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship between current champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Magnus Carlsen of Norway began on 9 November in Chennai, India, and will continue through 28 November 2013. Anand...

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